mrmichaelt wrote:While I was brooding on a cathedral's gargoyle statue, my thoughts turned to Erland Vinter. So we know he set off Egon's P.K.E. Meter, he wanted to buy out the Ghostbusters and supposedly clear haunted land for his own profit, he wanted the rune on Poveglia, Egon's search for Johansen's Argument is in vain - all the copies are gone and in #4 Egon mentions a Scandinavian spell book.
We know Egon studied in Sweden as an undergrad and thanks to Vol 2 #6, we know part of his research was Gjenganger. Those were basically corporeal undead. Ghosts with no ghostly qualities. Looks virtually like a human being. Almost like vampires of eastern Europe. Used to be violent creatures. Known as disease-spreaders.
This Scandinavian spell book. If it's not this Argument book Egon is looking for. There's a couple well known ones like the Cyprianus or the Galdrabok. Now the latter caught my eye because supposedly the Galdrabok a book of 47 spells compiled by four people in the 16th-17th century. Some of the spells had runic material like magical staves - like the one we saw on Poveglia no doubt. Others were invocations for demons and gods or instructions for a magical item. Some of the spells are protective, like to protect against...pestilence.
Could Erland be a Gjenganger? Could his big plan be taking a page from Achira? Hmm.
He could even be descended from or possessed by one. Maybe he's gonna make an army to cause his own version of Ragnarok and it could be ugly. He could even be the puppet for some Idulnas-like figure from Scandinavian lore that's seeking to release the Draugar and Grendel.
All the same, I'm sure that he is definitely connected to Egon from the past, because he doesn't want Egon actively Busting along with the others. If Egon wasn't injured, he would've solved the mystery in Issue 1 with just one look at Vinter's face. Also, he could've "borrowed" the Johansen Argument beforehand, knowing that Egon would come looking for it. Whatever Vinter's doing, he doesn't want Egon ruining it.
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